Stephen Adams

Stephen Adams (17 October 1807-1 May 1857) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-MS) from 4 March 1845 to 3 March 1847, succeeding William H. Hammett, and a US Senator from 17 March 1852 to 4 March 1857, succeeding John J. McRae and preceding Jefferson Davis.

Biography
Stephen Adams was born in Pendleton, South Carolina in 1807, and he moved with his parents to Franklin County, Tennessee in 1812, becoming a lawyer in 1829 and serving in the State Senate from 1833 to 1834. He moved to Aberdeen, Mississippi in 1834 and became a lawyer, circuit court judge, and a member of the state legislature, and he later returned to Tennessee to become a lawyer in Memphis, where he died in 1857.